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Posted Mar. 19, 2009, 5:59 p.m. ET
West Side Story Gets the Vanity Fair Treatmant
By Whitney Spaner
In celebration of the new Broadway revival of West Side Story opening on Broadway tonight, directed by the legendary Arthur Laurents, who wrote the original book for the musical, Vanity Fair put together quite the WSS-tribute spread. Shot by Mark Seliger, the photo story recreates stills from the 1961 film with Jennifer Lopez as Anita, Rodrigo Santoro as Bernardo, Chris Evans as Riff, Camilla Belle, who makes a beautiful Maria, and Ben Barnes is her lover Tony. The casting is amazing! Is there a new movie remake on the way as well? It's a real West Side Story renaissance!
Pictured from vanityfair.com is a scene from the "Prologue" of West Side Story with Chris Evans as Riff, the leader of the Jets and Rodrigo Santoro as Bernardo the leader of the Sharks.
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hi back in 1972 i am happy to say i graduated high school. we had a production of west side story for two nights. What a great memory i have of that time. I played anybodys. She was a tomboy always wanting to get in the jets. I will never forget that yearwe had casts parties each night. It was great. sphs 1972
Posted at 9:44 p.m. ET on Mar 20, 2009 by Anonymous
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